(February 2010 draft)

Do you believe in karma? I do - sometimes, or at least I think I do, and then I also believe that it's bull****: my lingering superstitions derived from an early childhood haunted by some bolt-slinging Judeo-Christian Ted Nugent-lookalike hovering, a mind filled with vengeance, off beyond the cirrus somewhere. Perhaps my understanding of the concept is stunted and inaccurate, possibly malevolent. Or maybe I'm just wallowing in a nonspecific variety of plight...

I'm staying in this place, innocuously called the Family House. It's a bit like the kind of establishment that was once called a sanitarium, as a catch-all phrase: people who were dying, people who were recovering, people who were weird and trying not to be, or just random people the rest of the world didn't quite know how to deal with. It's very very clean, not sterile, but a vast improvement over my apartment. The transient population (we are all called "guests," as we live in a...

Why are we Paying over $1,800.00 more than Chicago when were were told LAST YEAR that we would not pay any more than Chicago's increase to buy the water.

Ken Gorski
(42 year EP resident)

Everyday is the same, argument after argument. With everyone in my life. Its starting to get to hard to handle, but that's life right? Right?

As I sit and watch the RethugliKKKans fight for the throne of AmeriKKKa, I mean the Presidency, I cannot help but grow disgusted. It is truly a laughable situation. Herman Cain? Seriously?? The guy degraded women too much. He shouldn't even have run. And that guy from Texas with the N word painted on a rock at his ranch. Yeah, we know exactly where he stands. So that takes us down to Ron Paul, who has great ideas, but they'll never fly in D.C. He'd be a lame duck president. Newt Gingrich IS a Washington...